I recently picked up a copy of Mastering Tomcat Development (0471237647). The following is an excerpt from the book's chapter entitled Databases, Connection Pools, and JDBC:
"Prior to Tomcat 4, there was no connection pooling functionality within Tomcat, and you had to make a choice about the connection pooling technology to use. With Tomcat 4.x, you get an easy-to-use connection pooling library to work with, built into the server." The book then provides examples of a Resource declaration for each of Tomcat 4.0.x and Tomcat 4.1.x (using driverName versus using url as the parameter name). Is what the authors claim true? If so, what do I gain by using a connection pooling layer such as DBCP? --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]